From: Dirk Pieper <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:26:35 +0200 Dear all, We are happy to announce, that BASE (www.base-search.net) has reached another milestone with indexing more than 50,000,000 OAI-records. The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories worldwide. In this year alone, we have indexed about 10,000,000 records. The ongoing growth of repositories and the development of BASE are reflecting the overall importance of repositories as the backbone of the OA infrastructure. Repositories do not only contain theses and preprints anymore, like in the beginning, instead they are becoming the platform for the whole publication output of academic institutions (the more OA the better), they contain large digital OA text collections, research data and even ebooks. We therefore strongly believe, that repositories have to be the major driving force for OA in the future. About BASE: BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. BASE makes it possible to search for more than 50,000,000 documents across 2,700 repository servers worldwide and is one of the biggest search engine for academic OA documents and publications. Follow us: twitter.com/#!BASEsearch Blog for the OAI community: ub.unibi.de/oaiblog BASE Blog (in german): ub.unibi.de/baseblog Best, Dirk ------------------------------------------ Dirk Pieper Bielefeld UL - Head of Media Department Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld E-mail: dirk.pieper at uni-bielefeld.de Tel.: +49 521 106-4010 | Fax: +49 521 106-4052 www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de www.base-search.net -----------------------------------------